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indigo module
professionalism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A cooperative or workplace experience or period of training for a student that is provided by student's educational facility | externship |
| A facility providing medical care on an outpatient basis. Many clinics have a specialty, such as ongoing care for diabetes or cancer | clinic |
| A field legally restricted to practioners with a specific professional qualification and/or provincial or territorial registration | regulated profession |
| A graduate from accredited health office administration program who assumes administrative, communication, and/or clinical responsibilities in a health-care setting | administrative health professional |
| A legal document, obtained after passing written and clinical examinations, that is required for health care practioners in regulated fields | licensure |
| A mentor who guides and supervises a student throughout a workplace experience | precepter |
| A moral obligation | duty |
| A moral, legal, cultural or traditional claim | right |
| A particular social role that an ill person adopts, which involves giing up normal responsibilities and accepting care. May sometimes involve uncharacteristically passive behaviour | sick role |
| A person seeking or receiving health care; synonomous with patient, but suggets a more active role | client |
| A person who hadles primarily administrative responsiblities but also some clinical duties in a health office | medical office administrator |
| A person who is trained to assist a physician with various climical tests, examinations, and procedures | medical assistant |
| A person's discernable responses and actions | behaviour |
| A person's right to self-determination. In health care it refers to a patient's/clients right to make his own decisions without coercion. Decisions for treatment for example, based on fact and going fully informed of all treatment options | autonomy |
| A position in life that carries expectations of responsibilities and of appropriate behaviour | role |
| A set of guidelines for ethical conduct | code of ethics |
| A state of physical and emotional well-being, broadly considered. | wellness |
| According to one definition " a relative state in which one is able to function well physicall, mentally, socially, and spiritually in order to express the full range of one's unique potentialities within the environment in which one is living | health |
| After delivery | post partum |
| Allowing people to have their own beliefs, opinions, and way of doing things. | tolerance |
| Also known as amytrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehirgs disease. This is a progressive disease affefting the nerves taht are responsible for muscle stimulation. There is no known cure | ALS |
| An inborn person quality or characteristic | attribute |
| An individual who manages the administrative and communiaction needs of a client care unit. The title is being replaced with climical secretary or communications coordinator | ward clerk |
| Any duty or profession that supports primary health-care professionals, such as physicians, in delivering health-care services | allied health care |
| Assessing the seriousness of a client's presenting problem to dertermine who needs to have medical help first. | triage |
| Assuming that all members of a group will be alike | stereotype |
| Coming to comclusions about a person or group on the basis of untested assumptions, without regards for facts | prejudice |
| Considers concepts of fairness or entitlements, can involve oral or legal issues | justice |
| Creating a written copy of a dictated or recorded message | transcriptionist |
| Diagnosis and treatment | transitional phase |
| For some, means a belief in and dedication to a highter power, for others, it is a person, or interior quality, tied to emotions, value and morals | spiritual |
| Honesty and truthfulness | veracity |
| Involves our cognitive ablitiy to determine what is right and what is not | intellectual |
| Involves recognizing one's own strenghts and weaknesses, being able to analyze and deal with problems and recognize when one needs help | emotional |
| Is learned | skills |
| Manifested when a person belongs to a country with all its legal and social benefits | nationality |
| Meeting the seasonable expectations of others | faithfulness |
| Nontraditional methods and practices, based on a natural approach, including chriopracit, accupuncture, message, and aromatherapy | alternative health care |
| Occures when people are denied justice or treated unfairly because of the membership in a group | descrimination |
| Often used to refer to groups of people with similar physical characteristics and common ancestry | race |
| People with partners and strong social networks are more likely to be physically healthy | social |
| Putting yourself in other's shoes | empathy |
| Recovery/rehabilitation/death | resolution stage |
| Refers to a body's health and functioning | physical |
| Refers to the cultural characteristics of a particular ethnic group | ethnicity |
| Relating to groups of people with a common racial, religion, linguistic or cultural heritage | ethnic |
| Requires that we benefit others and act in the person's best interest | beneficence |
| Seeking medical intervention | action phase |
| Sustained clinical signs | acknowledgement phase |
| The ability to assess when something needs to be done and to do it | initiative |
| The appearance of clinical signs | preliminary phase |
| The basic or essential skills that one needs to succeed in a particular profession | core competency |
| The beliefs a person holds dear and that person's decisions and behaviour or conduct | values |
| The client continues to improve and is usually out of danger | satisfactory |
| The client has moved from critical toward wellness, condition is still volatile and subhect to change | guarded |
| The client is believed to be on firm footing and is expected to recover | good |
| The client is hanging in the balance between life and death and is receiving active intervention | critical |
| The client is near death but not receiving active intervention | poor |
| The clients condition has steadied, good news but doesn't indicate a sure recovery | stable |
| The languages, beliefs, values, norms, behaviours and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next | culture |
| The parameters of duties, and responsibilityes outlined by one s professional training and skill set | scope of practice |
| The phase of a chronic disease characterized by a belief or absence of clinical signs or symptoms | remission |
| The phase of a chronic disease characterized by a return of climical signs or symptions | exacerbation |
| The philisophical study of standards accepted by society that determines what is right and wrong in human behaviour | ethics |
| The tendency to use our own culture's standards as the yardstick to judge everyone; the belief in the superiority of our own group or culture | ethnocentrism |
| The values and practices of a group that distinguish it from the larger culture | subculture |
| What a person believes to be right and wrong. Pertaining to how to act, treat others, and get along in an organzied society | morals |
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